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In some ways, and at least until the end of February 2009, I consider myself a single issue non-voter...an activist publisher with a single, overriding personal agenda -- to stop the extradition of Canadian publisher, free market drug policy reformer, marijuana seed distributor and friend, Marc Emery.

Why is this a priority for me?

It's "the stoner Super Bowl," "marijuana fantasy camp" and "a playground for adults." It's the 2007 annual High Times Cannabis Cup competition and festival, and whatever the attendees call it in the commemorative DVD, it looks like the kind of fun that makes an American weed smoker drool in envy at the unenforced laws of Amsterdam.

You know the look you get on your face when you're high and happy as a kid skipping over a lawn sprinkler? Everyone has that look in this DVD.

It might have something to do with the prodigious amounts of high-powered weed in bongs, pipes, vaporizer bags, joints, huge "hand-grenade"-sized buds, over sized 100-gram joints, and so on, throughout the documentary. Footage of baristas showing off the many, many different selections available in Amsterdam's pot cafes is, to the persecuted smoker, like dropping off a bulimic at a cheesecake factory. Holy shit. Gotta go to Holland. (One Cannabis Cup notable says of his first time buying weed at an Amsterdam café, "I almost cried. I was like, ‘This is how it can be!'")

Editor,

USA - On Tuesday, December 2, a group of law enforcers who fought on the front lines of the "war on drugs" and witnessed its failures will commemorate the 75th anniversary of alcohol prohibition's repeal by calling for drug legalization. The cops, judges and prosecutors will release a report detailing how many billions of dollars can be used to boost the ailing economy when drug prohibition is ended.

Dec-05-08, New Brunswick, Canada -  A 41-year-old man has two weeks to pay $3,500 in fines after pleading guilty to two counts of indictable drug possession.

Mark Allen Rees was appearing in provincial court Monday for a preliminary inquiry into charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking, but the Jacksonville man pleaded guilty with the Crown's consent to two counts of the lesser charge of indictable possession. Rees maintained his not guilty pleas on the trafficking charges.

Colleen Daley lives on a sun burnt patch of over zoned Chula Vista real estate. She is besieged by the odoriferous crosscurrents of wafting grease and the crackling bark of drive-in order speakers — her one-bedroom ranch is surrounded by fast-food joints. And that’s where she thinks her problems as a marijuana farmer started.

 Police agencies are once again teaming up to fight impaired driving over the holiday season in the annual Operation Christmas campaign.